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the utmost development of the cinema as means and instrument of education.
The work of the Institute is carried on wit h confidence and keen enthusiasm in the small Medioeval Villa Tor Ionia enclosed in pine and fir trees, in the heart of Rome, or in the silent recesses of Villa Falconieri. Built towards the middle of the 16th century, this historic villa which the Italian State has offered to the International Institute, was erected on the ruins of ancient Tusculum, where Cicero places his dialogue « De Divinatione » with his brother Quintus, where he wrote « De Orator e » and « De Gloria », where he read out to Sallustius the first books « De Republica » and wherefrom the philosophical conversations on the problem of happiness derive their name « Tusculanae ».
The surroundings in which the work of the Institute is being carried on serve to give an idea of its lofty ideals.
The activities which the Governing Board and Executive Committee have assigned to the working organs of the Institute are manifold and wide. The first business has been to collect documentary evidence of the world industry of Educational Cinema and of the industries allied to it — an inquiry which necessarily had to be extended to the theatrical cinema in view of the fact that there exists as yet no definite line of demarcation between the purely educational and cultural province on the one hand and the theatrical province of life and action on the other. At a later stage, that is, when this demarcation will be established, this work will be confined to the Educational cinema. At the same time the collection of evidence has been extended everything which has any relation with the cinema in the legislative field. This work, however, is not being proceeded with for the sake of collection or erudition, but as an indispensable preparation or studies and proposals which will give the cinema a wider range of action more in keeping with its own cultural and scientific applications.
Side by side with the documentary branches which take note of the activities of similar international and national institutes, the technical fields of action are being developed day by day.
The historicoscientific knowledge of the cinema, of its innume